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1. pettter ✅ (pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 17-Oct-2016 14:23:46 UTC pettter ✅
   Spent part of the day following the #wikileaks situation, and also the related RT bank thingy.
   
   There's so much unfounded speculation out there, and specifically, those two organisations seem to do _nothing_ to discourage it.
   
   Wikileaks claimed, about 9h ago, that an unnamed 'state party' had severed his internet. There's been people around the embassy all day on livestream, walking into the embassy and everything (though not past the lobby, as they didn't have an appointment), with no trouble. Did the embassy change the WiFi password? Is that the 'state actor' that 'severed' his internet access? No one could lend him a 4G dongle?
   
   As for the RT situation, they claimed to have had their bank accounts 'frozen'. Even their own story with a photo of a redacted letter from NatWest shows nothing close to that - indeed, NatWest gives an ample 2-month period for RT to find alternate banking solutions, and if they can't, they'll get a check for any outstanding balance.
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   • pettter ✅ (pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 17-Oct-2016 17:23:37 UTC pettter ✅

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     Right, @wikileaks just resumed tweeting as if nothing happened.
     
     I'm going to assume that's nothing actually happened, and the earlier tweet was intended to do nothing but whip their supporters into a frenzy and potentially make someone political a little bit nervous.
     
     In other word, exactly the kind of sleazy manouvering with unproved assertions that are usually heavily denounced by their supporters.
     
     An alternative (VERY SPECULATIVE) reading is that it was a timed tweet that they forgot to remove when the rape case interview changed schedule, and that it, in that case, may have served to whip their supporters into a frenzy _as the swedish prosecutor was making their way to the embassy_, which would be shockingly irresposible behaviour, and a clear case of abusing the power of the wikileaks files and good name for personal reasons.
     
     Either way, there's been absolutely zero evidence of internet severing presented.
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 17-Oct-2016 19:11:32 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @pettter Thank you for following this thing, so I don't have to. <3
     
     Hits for "Assange" this morning included a SWAT raid and his death.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Oct-2016 19:21:46 UTC Temporary Marjolein

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     it was Assange's connection that was severed, not WikiLeak's. You would not be able to see the direct effects of that.